Uh, do you agree with President Trump that now is the time to get rid of the Senate filibuster? He’s saying he’s just gone on too long. He’s a nuclear option. So, I I I talked to the talked with the president multiple times over the weekend, I mentioned. And of course, the filibuster came up.

 This is a Senate matter. It has nothing to do with the House. Something is breaking inside Trump’s empire, and it’s happening in public. His own handpicked speaker, Mike Johnson, just went on camera and rejected Trump’s demands to kill the Senate filibuster. That’s not loyalty. That is a knife in the back. While Trump spirals on TV, blaming everyone but himself for a government shutdown he caused. His movement is collapsing.

 MAGA isn’t fighting Democrats anymore. It’s eating its own, attacking JD Vance’s wife and tearing itself apart from the inside. You have helped end these government shutdowns in the past when they came about. And you did it by bringing very good at it, but I’m not going to do it by I’m not going to do it by extortion.

 I’m not going to do it by being extorted by the Democrats who have lost their way. That there’s something wrong with these people. So then what happens under the troops don’t get a pay Schumer is a basket case and he has nothing to lose. He’s become I just left Japan. He’s become a kamicazi pilot. Sounds like it’s not going to get solved.

 The shutdown, it’s going to get solved. Yeah. Oh, it’s going to get solved. How? We’ll get it solved eventually. They’re going to have to vote. You’re saying the Democrats will capitulate. I think they have to. And if they don’t vote, that’s their problem. Now, I happen to agree to something else. I think we should do the nuclear option.

This is a totally different nuclear, by the way. It’s called ending the filibuster. But to do that, he’d need Senate Majority Leader John Thun to change Senate rules. Did you see John Thun said today? I know. John doesn’t Well, John and a few other But you know what? The Republicans have to get tougher.

 If we end the filibuster, we can do exactly what we want. We’re not going to lose power. The theory is, “Oh, then we’ll do it, but then when they get into power someday, they’ll do it.” That’s true. But you know what? We’re here right now. No, I like John Th. I think he’s terrific, but I disagree with him on this point.

He said today he wasn’t going to do it. Well, that’s too bad. Trump just said the quiet part out loud in his interview. He flat out called for what he calls the nuclear option, ending the Senate filibuster so that he can ram through whatever he wants. That’s not real governing. That is dictatorship dressed like strategy.

 Listen carefully to what he’s saying here. If we end the filibuster, we can do exactly what we want. That line right there tells you everything you need to know about how Donald Trump sees democracy. Not as compromise with his constituents and the people who voted for him and the people who didn’t vote for him, not as representation of the people in any sense, but as total control.

 He doesn’t want checks and balances. He wants obedience. The filibuster, for all its flaws, and there are many, is one of the few remaining safeguards in Congress that forces debate and slows down bad laws from just being installed one after another after another without any kind of push back. But Trump doesn’t care.

 He calls it the nuclear option because in his world, he knows it that blowing up institutions is easier than learning how to lead. And that it is actually blowing up the institution and he wants to do it anyway. He says, “Republicans need to get tougher.” Translation: “Stop questioning him and do whatever he says, even if it breaks the system.

 Just toughen up and do what he says.” And what’s his reason for it? Not to help Americans, not to get the government running again. No, he’s furious that Democrats won’t bow to him during a shutdown that he created. He’s using people’s paychecks and food aid as bargaining chips. Then in the same breath, he attacks Senate leaders in his own party, calling them weak for refusing to destroy a rule that’s been there for over a century.

 Think about that. Even his own Republican colleagues like John Thun said, “No, we’re not going to do that.” And Trump’s response, predictably, rage. Every time someone in his party shows an ounce of integrity, he turns on them. That is not strength. That is insecurity and panic. Trump knows he’s losing control if especially people in the top are talking out.

though he’s demanding more and more absolute power to bypass everyone, absolute loyalty from everyone, and the ability to control everything, Congress, the courts, even his own allies. When he says terminate the filibuster, what he really means is terminate democracy and just override another rule that at least somewhat maintains any semblance of democracy.

 So when you hear him talk about the nuclear option and the n-word meaning the nuclear option because that’s what he thinks about it. Remember this. He’s not fighting for America. He’s fighting for himself. And this meltdown isn’t about leadership. It is desperation. Everybody wants to know what my opinion is. I mean my opinion is irrelevant.

 Um I understand desperate times call for desperate measures. Uh I also understand that traditionally we’ve seen that as an important safeguard. I mean, I’ve obviously shared my thoughts with the president on that. As much as I have wanted to blow up the filibuster sometime as a house member when we were not getting what we wanted done in our agenda, I hear my Senate Republican colleagues, some of the most conservative uh people in in in in Congress who say it’s an important safeguard. It’s it’s it prevents us. It

holds us back from the Democrats worst impulses. What would the Democrats do if they had no filibuster impediment, no speed bump at all? They’ve already told us they would pack the Supreme Court. You’d go from 9 to 13 or 15 or 17 or however many liberals they can pack on the court.

 You would have DC and Puerto Rico be made into states, which would give four additional Democrat senators uh there in the count and make us a permanent minority. I guess that would be their their calculation. You’d see massive restriction of the Second Amendment, Second Amendment rights. you’d see them federalize elections so they could take over and manipulate things in the red states.

 I mean, there’s a lot of abuses that could come. And so, that’s the caveat. That’s what they’re working through. And I, you know, I I I speak uh frankly and honestly with the president, and he’s he’s very passionate about this. We’re all very passionate. I think what you see in this this um this debate we’re having on our own stuff is a reflection of the anger that we feel, the real desperation that we feel because we want the government to be reopened.

 We want to serve the American people as best we can. And I any hindrance to that is something that everybody’s looking at very carefully. Trump’s meltdown over the filibuster was barely a day old when his own guy, Speaker Mike Johnson, quietly refused to play along. A reporter asked Johnson point blank, “Do you agree with President Trump that now is the time to get rid of the Senate filibuster?” And instead of the usual MAGA obedience, Johnson gave a long polite no.

 He admitted that he’d spoken with Trump multiple times over the weekend, but then he called the filibuster an important safeguard. He said desperate times might call for desperate measures, but that doesn’t mean destroying one of Congress’s last guard rails. So even he considers that a guardrail. Oh, so that’s the moment right there, the stab in the back, I suppose, of Trump.

 That’s what causes it. Johnson didn’t shout it. He didn’t tweet it. He didn’t do anything drastic. He just did something far worse in the Trump world. He showed independence and slight disobedience from the ruler. Trump demanded the Senate go nuclear, but Johnson defended the very rule that Trump wanted dead. Even that minor thing causes this.

 For a man who owes his career to Trump, that is rebellion in plain sight. Listen to how careful he was. He praises Trump’s passion. Then he basically says, “It’s not my issue. It’s a Senate matter.” Translation: I’m not touching that grenade. in DC talk. That is a full-on rejection wrapped in matters, wrapped in this politeness that they do when they try to do their political talk.

 He’s signaling to Senate Republicans and to the rest of Washington that he’s not willing to burn down the entire system just because Trump had a tantrum on TV. There’s some limits that he has. Maybe eventually he’ll give those in, too. But now he’s pushing back a little bit and Trump does not like that.

 And that’s what’s so revealing. Trump’s entire power structure depends on fear, on everyone around him echoing his every word no matter what. But the second someone like Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson himself, his staunchest ally, steps back and in this case says, “Actually, I disagree with this in this one moment.” Uh, it completely shatters that illusion.

 Johnson is still a Republican, still conservative, still completely loyal to Trump in every way. But he’s, at least in this one instance, acted like a speaker of the house instead of Trump’s personal spokesman. For Trump, that is the ultimate betrayal. He built a movement where loyalty mattered more than law. And now even his allies are drawing lines.

 And Trump does not like lines. He doesn’t draw. Remember, Johnson just told the country quietly but clearly that Trump doesn’t get to rewrite the rules of the American government. That silence, that hesitation, that is what the end of Trump’s grip on his own party can start to sound like. The mega drama doesn’t end in Congress.

 It spills straight into the base and into other Republicans who have nothing to do with the rhetoric that these people like to use. And JD Vance’s family just got caught in the crossfire. Look at this tweet by Spencer. This is J. Dance’s biggest political problem in 2028. How on earth is he going to get the MAGA base to accept her? While Trump rages on TV and Mike Johnson tries to sound like an adult in the room, at least with his tone, the mega world online is eating itself alive.

 A handful of extremist far-right influencers, including Nick Fuentes, the neo-Nazi, and people close to his circle, have been attacking Vance’s wife, and they’ve been very racist about it. So, Vance’s wife, Usha, is Indian, and she’s Hindu, and obviously neo-Nazis hate Hindus, and they hate Indians. So, it is the ugliest uh sign of what happens when a movement built on loyalty tests runs out of outsiders to hate and it incorporates the far far right and neo-Nazis and it starts turning inward and eating itself.

JD Vance isn’t some moderate Republican. He’s one of Trump’s loudest defenders, practically auditioning to be his running mate in 2028. And these are the people he’s hanging out with and supporting. He tweeted this. Even conservative commentators like Ben Spencer have started tweeting about the meltdown, calling out how toxic it’s become.

 Breaking, JD Vance says his wife, Usha Vance, is not a Christian and has no plans to convert. But what makes it so striking is the hypocrisy Trump built MAGA on the idea of protecting American families. Yet, here’s his most hardcore followers smearing a US senator’s family. And JD Vance’s wife and his family because it doesn’t fit their ideal Christian white uh idea of the United States excluding everyone but their inner group.

 It exposes the movement for what it is, not patriotic unity, not a celebration of diversity and of unification under the American flag representing immigrants and people of all ethnicities and backgrounds. Of course, they don’t care about that. It is a purity test that no one can ever pass because it gets smaller and smaller and more and more exclusive.

 That is how that works. We are now approaching the longest shutdown in American history. Democrat’s fault. Under your presidency, we’re talking about more than a million federal workers who are not getting a paycheck, including our air traffic controllers. You see, there’s traffic snarls out at the airports.

 Now, this weekend, food aid for more than 42 million Americans is set to expire. What are you doing as president to end the shutdown? All we’re doing is we keep voting. I mean, the Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it. And the Democrats keep voting against ending it. You know, they’ve never had this. This has happened like 18 times before.

 The Democrats always voted for an extension. All we’re saying, give us an extension. We’ll work it out. Trump’s 60 Minutes interview was a disaster from start to finish. The kind that exposes everything broken about his leadership and his movement. When asked what his plan was, he didn’t have one.

 Just excuses, name calling, and the same recycled lie about fixing healthcare that he he has been talking about for years. We’ve never seen a single thing from him. Oh, he’s going to fix it next week. He has a plan for next week, right? It’s coming out in two weeks. In two weeks time, I’m going to have all of healthcare fixed.

 You’re going to have so much healthcare. you’re going to be you’re going to say Trump there’s too much healthcare that he’s been promising that since 2015 never delivered. He obviously he’s a conra man and a liar. Then he went even further saying he wants the nuclear option demanding that Republicans end the Senate filibuster so that he can bulldoze every law in his way.

 That is not Democratic leadership. That is authoritarianism. But for the first time, his own inner circle did not fall in line. Mike Johnson, the speaker he handpicked, publicly refused, calling the filibuster an important safeguard. In Trump’s world, that’s betrayal. So, here’s where we are.

 Trump is shouting from the sidelines. Johnson is quietly walking away, and MAGA is at war with itself online. The empire isn’t even trying to fight the left anymore. It is crumbling from within. Let’s just hope it does so quickly.